The Pilgrim's Progress is considered a classic in English literature and the most important book aside from the Bible in Protestant literature. I did not like the book. Nonetheless it, or at least one small part, has stayed with me going on seven years. Yesterday there were four pageviews of the post published on July 4, 2004 that quoted this passage:
"I only thought to make
I knew not what; nor did I undertake
thereby to please my neighbor; no not I,
I did it my own self to gratify.
Neither did I but vacant seasons spend
in this my scribble; nor did I intend
but to divert myself in doing this,
from worser thoughts, which make me do amiss."
"I only thought to make
I knew not what; nor did I undertake
thereby to please my neighbor; no not I,
I did it my own self to gratify.
Neither did I but vacant seasons spend
in this my scribble; nor did I intend
but to divert myself in doing this,
from worser thoughts, which make me do amiss."
